News Note to colleagues: please stop saying post traumatic stress is incurable

[EmmaOwl]

GO for it! Write to your heart's content. If for any reason someone benefits by it, you are ahead....

Haha Sheila! Thanks. I was an accidental poet in my younger years, and one particular year I earned more money for poetry than many would earn in a lifetime! - It still wasn't much, in the grand scheme of things..several hundred. Probably eliminated itself in taxes. But that was a fluke and extremely odd circumstance that will never occur again!! I get a kick though, after growing up having hissy fits when asked to read poetry.

I did write a book of poetry. It was published, but it did not sell well. Poetry usually does not sell well, so this is not really a bad mark on me, it is just the way things are.

I know this all too well ;) I heard an old friend/mentor of mine was on the radio; they asked, "And how do you make your living, as a poet?" and he said "Well not by writing poetry!" :)

 

[EmmaOwl]

Poetry usually does not sell well, so this is not really a bad mark on me, it is just the way things are.

In my artsy group, everyone would buy each other's chapbooks at each other's readings :) To be young again!!

I do struggle with writing, though, these days. I broke down kinda when education and job were coming together in a theoretically positive way. It's tough for me to write on the boards - tough for me to write THIS but I'm doing it anyway, because I do think some good may someday come of it. I hope so, anyway. Thanks for your kindness and your presence here.

 

[Milo's papa]

My wife has found that writing has given her the voice she was denied most of her life. She started out with a journal, then used that as a template to write her memoir.

Now she has a blog that she uses to bring awareness of the challenges of life for people living with PTSD as well as other mental health issues. Although she has only been doing it for about a year she is gaining quite a following.

She and her T believe it has been a great benefit to her healing process. They both strongly advocate that anyone suffering a mental health issue to write about the difficulties they face, the fears they have, and especially their hopes and dreams for the future. My wife strongly believes that this is one of the things that has helped her come as far as she has.